The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Japanese Games Keep Taking Over My Weekends!

Yesterday I was in 80’s Japan, and today I spent most of my gaming time in Painted Feudal Japan looking for cat statues, treasure, and animals that haven’t been fed yet.

It was a nice contrast to a sleepy grey day. I also made a homemade noodle bowl for breakfast, and have been enjoying tea ranging from matcha to sencha. I even mixed some matcha with some raspberry white hot chocolate I recently bought. When mixed together it looks like a green tea latte with sakura petals! The matcha pairs well with the sweetness of the white chocolate and the tartness of raspberry. I would have snapped a picture, but the lighting was all wrong, and I want to snap a pic in drinkware better fit for a photo shoot. All in all it was a calm day, well deserved.

Gaming

How’s About a Game of Pool?

After a rough week I wanted to return to 80’s Kamurocho to release a little stress through my digital fists, but got distracted by numerous rounds of Pool… I didn’t win a single match, but I came close on most of them. The damn AI was always the one to beat me to the damned 8Ball. One of my Yakuza work friends was telling me the other day that he couldn’t get into any of the mini-games, and I’m not sure why. It’s kinda cool to have games within games, it adds more depth to the game and it makes you feel like you’re just out for a fun night on the town!

Meanwhile… I’ve been slowly testing model swaps on other characters, like replacing Bob’s model with Ronald at the local shrine. He’s gonna set me up with allllll of the happy meals. I’ve been sharing some of my screencaps with my work friends, and their reactions range from amused to questioning my well being. Heh, if anything, escaping to these other worlds is helping me cope with all the terrible shit that’s been going on lately.

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The Melons Of Summer

It’s officially the season of the watermelon! I’m thinking of buying something watermelon related this weekend to celebrate my first weekend of summer. The weather has been pretty comfortable these last couple of days, perfect iced tea sippin’ weather, and not hot enough to put off video progress! I haven’t decided if I’ll cram some video work in over the weekend or not… I did get quite a bit done in tonight’s sitting, the clip I’m currently working on is going to be about 25 seconds long. I think it’ll depend on how much I can complete tomorrow. Sadly this project has no watermelons in it, but it will have explosives!

Hobbies

Anyone Got Some Marshmallows?

It cooled off just enough to get this small piece finished up! We even had a small recording session! I’ll tear back into it in a day or two, when the weather isn’t roasting, much like this picture. I’m not sure if I’ll have the video done by the 4th or not., especially with these heated delays. But I’m sure it’ll see the light of day sometime in July.

Hobbies

Off With A Bang

Yesterday I started back up again on my Broforce video, and managed to export one scene! Now I’m going all Michael Bay on this map while waiting to do some script writing/recording. Unfortunately, it was too hot for me to work on it today. I had to suffer with boba tea instead! 😛 I think that is going to be my new summer drinking ritual. I brewed some ginger peach tea for a peach boba tomorrow, it’s supposed to be warm again and I like the idea of tea AND a snack.

Food/Drink

Tea Time All The Time

I spent my final day of peace doing a little online shopping, animating (more on that tomorrow!), and trying some of the teas I ordered! I recently purchased a raspberry mojito and a mango strawberry tea. Both equally delicious. I’m even planning ahead and brewing some royal milk tea for some after work boba tea tomorrow! Then of course I also have a couple pints ginger peach tea for my work commute tomorrow… There was a lot of tea today. I’m drinking the raspberry mojito one right now, it’s an herbal tea — it offers a nice, refreshing tropical taste on a nice summer evening. It’s looking like it’ll be another one of those tomorrow, good thing I have plans to stay hydrated! 😛

Gaming

One Last Yakuza Modding Post

My adventures in modding Yakuza games has been sated for now. I have a better understanding of how to play with the game files. Unfortunately it’s looking like I can’t swap models over just any character, well… I can, but it can break different aspects of the game. For example: I had to revert Nishiki back to vanilla, otherwise the Karaoke game mode would crash the game. Kuze didn’t seem to like having his model changed either (to Eggman at least). I’ll need to set some time aside to play with these files more, and see if it’s possible to swap models out with a little less crashing.

I also learned that Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami mods can be swapped around since they share the same game engine! Making things like, 100% times more interesting! Perhaps if I come up with an interesting enough ensemble of characters I might livestream one of these… after I remember how to livestream. 😛

I’m going to jump back into my animation project tomorrow, that’ll give the blog a break from any Yakuza related posts. 😛 But it was nice to not only play a game, but learn a little more about the game internals.

Gaming

More Yakuza Modding Adventures

I got the Deadpool mod running! I also experimented with replacing different characters with different mods, despite most of the mods being aimed at replacing Kiryu or Majima.

The Eggman model is supposed to replace Kiryu, but for the hell of it I decided to try replacing Kuze with it. He didn’t show up as Eggman in every scene though, which means I missed some alternate models. I’ll have to experiment with that some more.

By the time I get this modded up the way I like it, it should make for a real nightmare inducing story! A nightmare inducing story that will look amazing on a 65″ 4K TV!

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Breaking The World

KOWASE!!!

I guess I just couldn’t wait for the weekend to start tinkering mods. One minute I was telling my friends about what I’ve been reading up on Yakuza modding, and the next I’m privately streaming a test to my friends that inevitably turns into endless laughing (Seriously, the karaoke part fucking killed me). I also have a fun model for Majima… but so far I can’t seem to get it to load. I’ll have to experiment with the files and see if I can get it to work, or at least have fun breaking these games in the process.

My original plan was to continue my animation, but I guess that can wait for another day or two. Instead, please enjoy this lovely piece of modded nightmare fuel.